Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-01
FLOOD Tide.
he First Swell of the Great Boom
has Reached the Young
Giant of Texas.
Hundreds of Thousands Of Dollars Be
ing Expended by Men OF Foresight
In anu Near fort Worth.
Immense Manufacturing Enterprise.
Beautiful Pa.ks-Steam Street Cars.

Immense NJ Manufacturing Enterprise.
Beautiful Pa.ks-Steam Street Cars.
Marvellous indeed has been the growth
50 Fort Worth in the past. Ten years ago
struggling hamlet, to-day mighty city,
tn the foundations laid deep and strong
% the adamantine rocks of a far reaching
mBerce on which to build the only
etropolis of North Texas. The thou
Inds of dollars given by the liberal men
the struggling town of seven years ago
id CT railroad enterprises, has been as
hd cast upon the waters and is now
rning with manifold increase. The
hearted, the doubling, the Jonahs
never found a congenial atmosphere
'oundlng tn city and to-day they
STAND APPALLED,
hat the knights Of progress and WGr-
a n battling for city's supremacy have
lmplished. The past has been gath
into the fold of its fathers, and Fort
th enters upon a new era.
confines of the city are crowded;
M ness drives into the sequestered
Is, and more room for the thriving
ople must be found. This havi been
)parentfor some time past numOer OF
entlsmeu have associated themselves iE
the work e providing WHIST is wanted.
WEST FORT WORTH.
Captain m Evans, Major X. NJ. Van
~Zandt, Robert Mozart and Mrs. A. 2.
#Rysn own immed ately adjoining the city
#2700 acres Of land, composed Of rich
Spr6irie, heavy forest and open woodland.
bur miles of the West Fork and OUe and
IS e-half miles of the Clear Fork pass
Rough this magnificent body of land
~ are now GA the different surveys
NJ flowing artesian wells and large
,laur spring, the waters of which are
bnounced most beneficial to health
e gentlemen mentioned have deter
ned to make city on this land, and to
end have taken the work in hand. A
STEAM STREET CAR LINE
to be built from the courthouse or
be street interseCting Main street to
extreme limit of this tract, distance
three and One-half miles. Here it is
QDposed by Captain Evans to connect
$Rth line passing entirely around his
n terminating at the head of Houston
Get, the total length Of both lines to be
Ehtj miles. Small locomotives will
Z raw the trains passing over this road,
s md the cost Of operating will not exceed
cents per hour. At the high land
mn ediately west of the city is the resi-
7dence of Major VaI Zsndt, and il be
! noticed by any one standing at rs point
s that Seventh, Filth and WeatherfoTd
&streetS extended would converge O few
$eet beyond his residence. 1t has been
= determined to open WeatherfCrd and
8 Seventh streets TO this point as soon as
q ossiole, AID later on Fifth street also.
s beginning at the Junction of these streets
a GRAND BOULEVARD
IT, be opened 100 feet wide and ex-
bed on an 8r line three miles to the
s st. In the center Of this boulevard
II run the car lines, while the entire
adWay is % be made firm and smooth
&c. On one side will be speeding
nile in lengt7, On which the fast
our citizens can be exercised.
homemade Of tesselated pavement
On either side of this boulevard,
Hd by grow, # tees At the end OF
b ulevard overloC king
FOREST COVERED GORGE
&er 100 feet deep will be erected q pa
len, with all provisions made for rest,
- the tired people from the busy city
pend an hour in enjoyment OF the
Efficient scenery and breathe the pure
Of frCm-this high land, reached hv
lie descent, viii be found Forest Park,
- ,re's own handiworb, covering $50
3 cfes. In this park is Horseshoe lake,
hich will te a magnificent body of wa
III surrounded by trees. In another part
Of the park is
LAKE COMO,
as clear as crystal, fed from perennial
springs. The water from Sulphur Springs
will be brought by pipes across the river
and turned in a grotto, bubbling up
thro Tgh pure white sand. This land will
'"e divided into blocks 6O0x6O0 feet, with
velve lots TO each block 290xl00 feet.
ARTEsIAN WATER
gill be forced by hydraulic ram to the
SECOND story of every house on the land !
In int West Fork, running through
this lafi, are stretches of never |
failing water thirty feet deep and |
IiB several plsces boats can sail or steam |
For over q mile. On Captain Evans tract, |
which is nearest to the city, is situated
DUCK LAKE,
covering eight acres, and on which as
many as twenty ducks have been |
killed in a day. Standing on any portion |
of this land one can see the Blue Mounds |
head, twenty miles away, Speers ridge,
twenty-five miles distant, and way of to
the west the Blue hills near
Weatherford. while at the base OF
the plateau lie highly cultivated
farms, heavy forests snd also wild and
broken country. City Engineer Ring has
been busy for a week running the lines
for the railrosd and plating the tract,
and force of fifteen or twenty men is
Row at work in Forest Park trimming up
the trees and cutting away the under
brush. West Fort Worth will be lovely
spot, and all the beauties Of the place
have not been set forth by half in the
above.
Mr.. Mozart intends to erect at once an
elegant residence in the West End, as
wilI Mr.. Vickery, at present citizen OF
but who will remove to
Mort Worth at an early day. To show
zkAt people think of this property we
Mn suffice to say that in November,
4ag. 1000 acres of the tract
IA for $1,000 per acre. 4 few
49, portion of this 1000 acres sold
Per acre, and every foot OF the
chase can now be sold at $3.50 per